Text: Lambert A. Wilmer (???), “[Note about E. A. Poe],” Baltimore Saturday Visiter (Baltimore, MD), vol. 2, no. 27, August 4, 1832, p. 3, col. 1

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Mr. Edgar A. Poe, has favoured us with the perusal of some manuscript tales written by him. If we were merely to say that we had read them, it would be a compliment, for manuscripts of this kind are very seldom read by any one but the author. But we may further say that we have read these tales every syllable, with the greatest pleasure, and for originality, richness of imagery and purity of the style, few American authors in our opinion have produced any thing superior. With Mr. Poe's permission we may hereafter lay one or two of the tales before our readers.